Foraminifera in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone and other oxygen-deficient settings: Taxonomic composition, diversity, and relation to metazoan faunas

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 25-54

  Gooday, Andrew J ^a   Bernhard, Joan M ^b   Levin, Lisa A ^c   Suhr, Stephanie B ^d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARABIAN SEA;

BATHYSIPHON; GLOBOBULIMINA; HYPERAMMINA; LAGENAMMINA; RHABDAMMINA; SACCORHIZA;

EID: 0033989761     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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